When it comes to delivering bad news, there's nobody like a reporter.
Sort of.
About 99 percent of the time,we do it the way Don McLean described it in "American Pie:" "Bad news on the doorstep..."
A few weeks ago, however, it was one on one on the telephone with the owner of a local business who'd wanted us to put a note in the business bulletin board that his engineerig firm had received a Best of Lubbock Award for marketing.